Mainly because sports don’t always seem to fit one particular forum because Cafe Society doesn’t quite fit. Is it even worth it, though?
There have been several threads recently that have had me wondering the same thing. I’m not quite sure how Sports relates to fighting ignorance, but it could be a forum like MPSIMS.
Right. And Survivor and Computer Game threads fight ignorance how exactly?
:rolleyes:
We neither need it nor want it.
While we do cover a lot of territory here we cannot be all things to all people. That includes sports, which we cover a bit of in passing. We deliberately do not choose to cover sports as exhaustively as some people would like; that’s not our reason for being here.
The other side of this argument comes from people who wish to see no sports threads at al and would like to see them exiled somewhere where they don’t contaminate the rest of the board. Too bad, they’re here in every now and againness. Skip over the threads you dislike; hopefully there’s many more on subjects more to your preference.
This is what I expected. So, if we start a sports thread we give our best guess on forum apropriateness and just deal?
I think all sports threads (except rants but including fantasy) should be confined to Cafe Soceity, just so that everyone knows where to go to start or to find sports threads.
IMHO, YMMV
We try to judge the content of our threads.
Much of sports goes into MPSIMS or IMHO.
A specific question with a definite answer; like who are all the pitchers that have officially pitched a perfect game would go into GQ.
“Should the DH be universal” would go into GD and maybe eventually the Pit as this is piratically a religious debate. 
“T.O. is a jerk because …” would be in the pit.
“I dislike Fox’s coverage of the NFL…” would belong in Café. This is media oriented.
etc.
Sports go where ever appropriate.
However, I would still love a sports forum, but it is not a big deal to me, just a wish list item.
Jim
I like the idea of all sports threads to one forum, **MPSIMS ** or **Café ** would make sense to me. I missed your post on preview of course.
And all I have to say to that is: arrrrrrr.
Uggh :smack: Darn spell checker got me again. I really need to learn to spell right in the first place.
Yeah! We could call it:
Mundane Pointless Sports I Must Share…
The upside would be that those really smug, superior people who just don’t follow sports won’t drop into the thread to let us know how superior they are because they have no idea what we’re talking about. Unless they go into the forum just to do that, which they probably would.
Yes, but then they would get warned a little quicker at least.
I was going to make a Yankees joke here, but…nah. 
Sports, like any other human activity, can appear in any forum, based on its particulars. As Jim pointed out.
Expanding on What Exit’s comments: we don’t sort questions here by topic. We don’t have a special forum for economics, astronomy, sociology, etc. Instead, we organize questions based on the type of discussion we’re expecting: questions with direct answers go in GQ, questions for debate go in Great Debates, etc. The only exception (sort of) is that Cafe Society was set up to cover all the arts/entertainment, because there was such a large volume, it was flooding other forums.
So, for sports, the last time we discussed this issue we concluded that sports were (mostly) about entertainment – assuming you mean watching, rather than doing. Hence, Cafe Society.
On the other hand, if you’re talking about engaging in sports:
- Factual questions go in General Questions: “What are the different sports clubs membership dues in my area?”
- Debates go in Great Debates: “What’s the best exercise for weight loss?”
… and so forth
Take any broad topic like “sports” and it won’t fit in cleanly in any forum. It’s sort of like saying we should have an abortion forum because it doesn’t always neatly fit into Great Debates.
Besides, the content description for Cafe Society does include “entertainment, or leisure”, which sounds right for most sports threads.
On a side note (and not intending to be snarky to the OP), we’d have a pretty ridiculous number of forums if the admins actually split up the board as people often suggest (a computer questions forum, a health questions forum, an “Ask the…” forum, a banned users forum, etc.). Hell, we’d probably have an entire forum dedicated to cat pictures.
I’d enjoy a sports forum. I think people don’t talk sports here as much as they like because it doesn’t fit conveniently into the other forums. And, as noted above, there is a noticable anti-jock smugness from certain posters that discourages more threads. I’d suggest it be perhaps a little more restrictive than The Pit, but considerably loser than any of the other forums. If Notre Dame or Yankees fans are involved, of course, all restrictions are off…
Don’t worry, we can take it. Why did you leave Dallas fans out though? They are the Yankees of Pro Football.
I do not know if you noticed this yet, but the major sports fanatics on this board have carefully built perpetual threads that are design to last for extended time periods. You will see many examples from the “NFL East” thread to **Airman Door’s ** “the Steelers March” thread and **Silenus’ ** “How’s your team” doing or my “Hot Stove” thread. We tend to design a few threads at a time to last for a set period of time coinciding with an aspect of a particular sport. It seems to work well, gives us sports fans an outlet and does not bother the Mods too much. Actually we seem to self-police well enough that the Mods never have to worry about the seasonal sports threads.
Jim
It would, of course, be called “Squee.”
I’ve noticed it as well. I think the SDMB has quite a few members who, in high school, were recipients of wedgies, locker room towel whippings and stuff-the-geek-into-the-locker treatments, who may have thought that the SDMB was a safe haven from the slope-browed, football-liking tormentors of their youth. Can’t blame them for getting a little snarky when it turns out that more than a few sports fans followed them to the secret hideout… 